Re: [Xen-devel] [libvirt bisection] complete build-i386-libvirt

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 16:29 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [libvirt bisection] complete 
> build-i386-libvirt"):
> > This seems odd to me. 
> > 
> > Given the failures happening recently are:
> > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~xensrcts/logs/30391/
> > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~xensrcts/logs/30391/build-amd64-libvirt/5.ts-libvirt-build.log
> ...       
> > It seems more likely that "Add common API for doing polkit
> > authentication" which was fingered by the other build-*-libvirt
> > bisections is far more plausible.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > I'm not sure what caused the bisector go off back into July. Perhaps a
> > spurious failure at some point sent it down a rat hole?
> 
> I think that's likely.  The basis pass it found was very old.  And the
> commit it fingered was indeed bad (and reported as such at the time).
> It's just that since then the tree was fixed and became bad again.

Makes sense.

It was pretty timely too, so it clearly didn't spend ages bisecting the
last 4 months...
> 
> Ian.



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